Integrating with Sakai

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Do you use Sakai? Adrian Fish is working on integrating BigBlueButton with the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. See Adrain’s post.

It just works

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See this recent blog post by the webmaster at Dearborn Schools on his experiencs with using BigBlueButton.

BigBlueButton is now listed on the Asterisk Exchange

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Digium, the company behind Asterisk, has added a listing for BigBlueButton in their Asterisk Exchange (link). Asterisk is the open source PBX that powers the voice conferencing system in BigBlueButton. The message to all companies using Asterisk: if you offering voice solutions using Asterisk, check out BigBlueButton and explore offering web conferencing solutions as well!

HTML 5

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We’re starting to look closer at the potential for HTML 5 provide as an option for BigBlueButton to provide rich multi-media interface in a pure HTML/Javascript environment. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ While there will always be limitations in a new platform, and we know its early days, but HTML 5 is showing some promise for supporting the voice

BigBlueButton 0.63 Released!

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After about two weeks of testing and testing, BigBlueButton 0.63 is Released. As with each release, you can download BigBlueButton as a fully working Virtual Machine that also doubles as a development environment. We’re very happy with this release. We had a number of external contributors help us, including Jeremy Thomerson, Xie Yan Qing, Chen